The Dr Synonymous Show

 After a stammering introductory session about his dog, Marty, and comments about traveling through Ohio Amish country, Dr S comments on the PBS Memorial Day Special.  In it Dennis Frantz delivered a touching story about a Vietnam Veteran with over 40 years of misery from PTSD. Nest is a long blog post review of a disastrous situation with a home delivered mom who was hypotensive and hemorrhaging....

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, Medical Mojave, Brass and Ivory featuring Arthritis Awareness Month with a link to ZAZZLE for the 1000 hands poster information.  http://www.brassandivory.org/2012/05/arthritis-awareness-month-show-us-your.html.  Next, Dr Synonymous reviews posts of two of his cyberfriends: SeaSpray and Dr Fatty Finds Fitness. Next is the  physic...

Health Care blog review and discussion, featuring WEGO Health activist blogs from Health Activist Writers Month Challenge (#HAWMC on Twitter). This Challenge involved thirty posts in 30 days by a host of Activists who advocate for specific diseases or causes.  Dr Synonymous blog was used as a Family Medicine Activist site for 30 posts. Dr Jonas marveled at the high quality of the writing and the i...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care blog, tweet and literature review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, including comments about Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussion includes reference to the past, present and future of Family Medicine in an extended conversation with Larry Bauer, MSW, MEd, Executive Director FMEC, Inc at the end of the regular show time for over thirty minutes.  Dr Jonas, your host will comment on...

 After a disclaimer, Dr Jonas, your host, congratulates the Soin Medical Center in Beavercreek, OH for their successful opening in February.  He introduces his coffee for the show:  Tulli's Kona Extra Bold from his Keurig coffee maker.  Timely comments about President Obama being in Dayton with the British Prime Minister while the show is recorded.  The time change (spring ahead) and March Madness...

Health Care blog review and discussion, starting with Warm Socks (with RA) comments about scheduling and waiting for time with doctors.  Dr Jonas then reviews Deb's Fibromyalgia Blog which included her story about getting her diagnosis and changing medications across three or four clinical sites when her doctor died.  The host then talks about fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria changes from an artic...

After a nine minute delay while Dr Synonymous flounders with the microphone, we start with medical student blogs concerning the Future of Family Medicine and Communication skills of doctors.  Dr Jonas comments on articles in the Dayton Daily News about electronic medical records in Providence Medical Group and Premier Health Partners.  He then reviews information from the AAFP about hirsuitism (ex...

A weekly health care blog, tweet and medical information review and discussion with Dr Synonymous, aka A. Patrick Jonas, MD.  This session started with reading from and comments on patient blogs by Penelope (fighting depression with exercise), Medical Mojave (adrenal insufficiency and exercise) and Anaphylaxing (Mast Cell Disease).   Aaron Stupple's blog: Adjacent Possible Medicine, gives a medica...

Health Care blog review and discussion, with your host A. Patrick Jonas, MD aka, Dr Synonymous, starting with a few Tweets then Cindy on Health blogs about a possible common pathway for chronic diseases.  We get cheerful greetings from Dr Fatty and WarmSocks Valentine Day messages.  AFP Community Blog by Kenny Lin, MD then reflects on the status, or lack thereof, of Family Medicine- present and fu...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

After a brief introduction of the show and disclaimer, Dr. Jonas, your host for the Dr Synonymous Show, will review 2 patient blogs in keeping with our tradition. Special guest Dan Jonas, MD, MPH, Associate director of the Center for Evidence Based Medicine at the Shep Center of the University of North Carolina will enlighten listeners about risk communication in Family Medicine, Primary Care and...

Dr Synonymous starts this special morning show with comments about coffee from "Discovering Coffee's Unique Health Benefits" by Michael Downey, an article in Life Extension Jan/Feb 2012 edition.  It includes a long list of disease reduction stats related to various amounts of coffee ingestion.  Then Dr S covers a few issues in infant feeding, followed by comments about blogs by Dr Fatty and Medica...

Health Care  blog review of Warm Socks and Wren about the pain scale.  Comments by Jim, the engineer father of The Singing Pen of Dr Jen on her blog site.  Dr Jonas then presents the online version of his presentation for the Day of Breath at the Dayton International Peace Museum on January 14.  The title "Doctor and Patient DYAD- Breathe New Life into an Aging Health Care System One Relationship...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs of Dr Fatty Finds Fitness, Medical Mojave, and Warm Socks.  Physician blogs starting with Dr Mike Sevilla's Family Medicine rocks (FMRocks) who challenges us to "re-brand" for the New Year.  Dr Jonas (aka, Dr Synonymous)  is analyIng his "coherence" with EMWave Desktop during the first 20 minutes of the show, basically getting fe...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs: Sea Spray and Medical Mojave, followed by medical student blog: Adjacent Possible Medicine.  Dr Synonymous reviews an article from Medica Economics by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA amounting to a confession of undue bias by Managed Care Medical Directors.  He denied procedured to thousands of patients.  This is not surprising, conside...

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...